Intensity of cold with dense fog is affecting normal life as well as agriculture because of further falls of temperature in Gaibandha.
The severity of cold increased further for blowing of cooler winds, fogs and mists, causing untold suffering and miseries to the people, especially the homeless and char (shoal) people.
According to Rangpur Met Office, the lowest temperature in the district was recorded 20.50 degree celsius yesterday while it was 24.20 on Tuesday.
The chilly weather is expected to prevail in the district for more days, said met office sources. Moreover, the sun is not visible all the daylong. The intensity of chill went on high before sunrise and after sunset on the day.
The number of patients with cough, fever and asthma has been increased during the past few days everywhere in the district, said Civil Surgeon Ahad Ali.
Gaibandha Sadar Hospital and other private clinics are crowded with bronchitis and asthma patients, said Civil Surgeon Ahad Ali.
Commuters faced troubles in getting vehicles particularly tempo, rickshaw and van as the presence of the vehicles on roads and bus stands were very thin.
Poor people particularly farmers and day laborers are the worst sufferers as they cannot work at the field for chilly wind.
Golam Hossain, a day laborer of Barobaldia village under sadar upazila, said he along with his family members had been sufferings a lot for the last couples of days as they did not have warm clothes.
He said he had tried to buy used warm clothes for his family members, but traders had already increased the prices of warm after falls of temperature.
Many of the destitute are trying to combat this bone chilling cold through heat generated from burning straws and old rubber tyres.
Standing crops, including maize, mustard, wheat and seedlings of Boro paddy had started damaging in the fields, said Mir Abdur Razzak, deputy director of Department of Agriculture Extension.
Chairman of Mollarchar union of the district M Saiduzzaman said the char dwellers of the union were the worst sufferers as they were facing bone biting chili wind during the winter season for want of warm clothes.
The administrations, NGOs, voluntary, socio-cultural and charitable organisations have distributed warm clothes among the distressed cold-hit people to mitigate their sufferings, but it is very insufficient than the necessity.
Beside, district administration has distributed warm clothes to the cold victims of four upazilas at the first of the current month.
The cold hit people urged the government and other socio-cultural organisations, including well-off section of the society to distribute warm clothes to cold victims to combat the cold wave.